New Player: Trying to decide on a class

[NewAgeDoom]

To give a little context, I've gotten this character to 30 on the Arcanist (And get my Scholar job), and I've had quite a bit of fun with that, but casting in general feels a little too turret-y for my taste. And I gave my first honest crack at Marauder tanking, and just found it a bit too spike-y for my liking (And this is coming from someone who played DK tank in WoW)

I only have the base version of the game for now, so knowing that, what would you say is the most straightforward and accessible melee/ranged DPS job for a new player?

[Voltron_HD]

Archer/Bard keeps you mobile and provides raid-wide buffs that are greatly appreciated. My vote would go to that. Plus SB revamp on the class make it extremely fun.

[silverlunarfox]

bard (archer), ninja (rogue), dragoon (lancer) for me are good starting melee/ranged for the base jobs.

[ManuelBravo]

To be fair you may want to have at least one of every role. in the long run it will become more helpful specially if your going to do end game raiding.

I would recommend PLD ( easy to learn )

DPS I'm a DRg at heart however NIN is fun and a lot like MNK

For range I'm more of a BLM , however if you like support RDM is fun.

Healer Many like SCH I'm more of a AST I like the challenge of boosting / managing the buffs.

Over all just make sure your having fun.

[NewAgeDoom]

Seems like the general consensus is Bard for ranged dps. I'll go ahead and take a look into it, seems like it's a bit more straightforward, not really having to worry about combos, while still remaining mobile.

Thanks for your input, everyone so far, but I welcome any other suggestions

[silverlunarfox]

Seems like the general consensus is Bard for ranged dps. I'll go ahead and take a look into it, seems like it's a bit more straightforward, not really having to worry about combos, while still remaining mobile.

Thanks for your input, everyone so far, but I welcome any other suggestions

Pretty much under 50 bard is still straight forward even with its tweaks. I think youll like it quite a bit. I started this game as a whm and bard. Have fun pewing all the things! ^.^

[Karl0217]

My experience with this game has largely been with the tank classes. As an addendum to what ManuelBravo said Warrior and Paladin are fairly easy to learn (warrior has a slightly stepper learning curve than paladin) but fair warning tanks have additional responsibilities in group content than dps. I have got Dragoon up to 55 and I have found it to be a fairly easy leveling experience, I also played around with Bard a bit. Bard and its cousin Machinist are a bit different compared to other dps classes since their rotation is priority based (and somewhat at the mercy of a random number generator) as opposed to having a strict sequence of buttons you press with a class like Dragoon. But Bard is still pretty fun.